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Homosexual love is torturing me to suicide

Salam and peace be upon you from the almighty allah

Hello I’m a 17year old boy who has only two days of finishing year 12. 3-4 times a day pray, I read the Quran and always ask for Allah’s forgiveness. I had always wanted to have kids and marry a girl and live happily. But 4 years ago my family moved from to another city and I started a new school in grade 9. I met a boy, who is a good Muslim and we became good friends. I only see this boy at school. But in that year I started to fall in love with him, of which I felt ashamed.

My guilt and anxiety are not leaving me alone

I have wronged a lot in my past life and I can not stop being depressed and guilty about it. At the time I was 16 I was in a haraam relationship with a boy a year older then me. I had thought that I was in love and he promised to marry me. I ended up losing my virginity to him and had sex with him whenever he wanted because I felt loved and wanted. I do take full responsibility and I have no one to blame but my self nevertheless I will not try to disguise myself as the victim in this matter.

I can’t sleep or eat, please someone save me and my family from this boy

Assalam-o- alikum, i am feeling soo depressed i really dont know how to start… i am a girl…i hav seen a lot of pain in this life.. i was only 11 when my mom left us coz they divorced. i am the eldest girl and i hav 4 siblings. next to me is my sister she is 5 years younger to me… my dad was the only parent to luk after us.. but alhamdullah we were financially good ..so my dad arranged us maids to look after us… still i always used to miss my mom

I have no desire to live any more, now my mum has rejected me

I’m emotionally hurt by every body close to me don’t want to live any more. I have several problems in my life from in-laws to my own family I really want to end my life.

A Muslim teenager: lost, depressed, lonely homosexual

I was a good child, I sought Allah, I prayed 5 times a day as a child and even as a teenager. I stayed up long nights reading Quran , making Dikr.. I am not a faithless or unaware person. I know I need to change, I am very lost and confused and find myself doing bad things, talking to bad people.

Finding it hard to recover from broken trust, broken heart

We were working in same office.He proposed to me and I really was not interested to get committed into relationship. So I clearly said him to come to parents and speak about marriage. That not even a day he will be without seeing me. He used to come at 12 o clock near to my home to see me. Well he did all stuffs to show his love.

One month into a forced marriage, I have lost my happiness

I am a woman who has been married for one month and I am not a very happy soul. This marriage is a forced affair and was committed only for my parents sake. Being a Muslim I’m aware of the fact that I’m supposed to keep my husband happy and satisfied. In the process, I’m not happy myself.

Worried about getting married whilst my grandma suffers dementia

For the past month my grandma was getting extremely bad panic / anxiety attacks. I’ve witnessed all of them and took her to ER twice because I thought she was going to die in my arms. The doctor put her on klonopin 0.5 mg daily and most of the time shes sedated in the beginning but is able to cook, clean etc on her own but she doesnt like to be alone, gets very emotional and I dont feel comfortable leaving her unsupervised.

Despairing of my life and future, in fear of losing my deen

I belong to middle class family, I am single and I am studying in university. I have problem regarding social phobia. Means I feel very hesitate and nervous in crowd and people. Because of this since my childhood I never had any relationship although I am straight, 5,5″ height and average looking and normaly build. But because I had issues in past with my family since my fathers death and since then I have been struggling.

Pressured into nikkah with my cousin

I got engaged to my cousin last year (may 2009) and I am very unhappy. I was brought up to believe that my marriage would be my choice and whenever I wanted it to be. Then my mum started pressurizing me about marrying my cousin who is back home but I didn’t want to. (within the period of a month, she tried every tactic to get me to say yes) she kept telling me this is for your happiness and bright future, he is a lovely man and so on.